Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 32, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1934 — Page 2

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f CLASSIFIED I ADVERTISEMENTS, i BUSINESS CARDS, 1 AND NOTICES I FOR SALE FOR FADE —Will sell a *uod Globe j Cook Stove at the Riverside Sal* ! Saturday. Stove can’t be told from new one 77-K3t | FOR SALE — Horse, guaranteed good worker. Full blood Holstein j row Jesse A. Ray, mile south, four ! miles tjast of Monroe. 74-6tx; FOR SALE 20 acres. 4 miles south on No. 27, mile east. Priced for iilllt'k sale, $1,200. Mrs. Belle j Kessler. 78 3tx [ FOR SALE Will have frost proof j cabbage plants. April 1 and 2nd. 1 L. K. Rummers, 900 Walnut St. 79-3 t ' i ——— FOR SALE—Brooder house 8 x 10. 10 rod of wire and posts. Dan , Gould at Estons Bn*., 2 miles west of Wiltshire, O. 79-3 t FUR SALE 8 ton good timothy Kay. A-l hay. M. Meibers. 1127 West Monroe St. g-7S-2t | FOR SALE Red clover seed. $7 j bushel: alsike seed. $8 bushel, tagged. J. R. Gage. 2 miles east. IS mile south of Monroe. 78-3tx . FOR SALE Roan short horn bull,' 18 mouths old. A good one. D. W. Laisure, 2 miles east, 2 miles south of Monroe. g-7S-3tx | FUR SALE —Soy beans for seed, i Cash only. William Shoaf. six j. miles southwest of Decatur. 77-g3tx - FOR SALE - Mancjiu soy beans. 1 Floyd Barger. 11* mile north. I 1 mile east of Craigville. 77t.3x FOR SALE One used three piece I wicker suite with spring cushions, j Occasional table and pillows. Beavers. Frybavk and Beavers. 77-g3tx FOR SALE OF TRADE—Roan eolt coming yearling for good work horse, also good Guernsey and Jersey cow fresh. Clarence McKean 1-4 mile west St Paul church. 79-3tx FOR SALE —Brown mare, good worer. Max Thieme 7 miles north- j east of Decatur. 79-3tx ' FOR SALE—Trade your old furni-1 turc. stoves and pianos in on new. Sprague Furniture company, l phone 199. g-76-4t o FOR RENT FOR RENT—3 rooms suitable for! offices. Newly decorated; plenty of light; heat and water furnished. Inquire Niblick & Co. TB-3t o WANTED WANTED WHY NOT TRY OUR HOME MADE PIES AT THE WHITE SPOT CAFE. 11C Monroe si. WANTED —Light hauling, ashes. | rubbish, etc. Prices reasonable. Phone 1208. 79atitx I — o CWA PROGRAM COMES TO END (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) from the CWA appropriations! with w hich to finance the new ] relief work. This sura was expected to provide for about 30 to 40 weeks. Hopkins is hopeful that reviving business will continue a gradual absorption of the unemployed, thus constantly reducing the lead of the federal organiztaion. In this eonnection great hopes are held for the drive to revive the construction industry which is to be started shortly. The PW A program also will lighten thei burden. Hopkins said that about threetourths of the biliii n dollars CWA expenditure went for wages, the rest for materials. Appropriations for materials in most cases were made by local governments. The CWA cost averaged 15n.00b.00q weekly and had a peak of $70,000,000. The cost of the new relief will be only $15,000,000 to $20,000,900. Hopkins gave assurance that demobilisation of the CWA did not mean the end of federal relief. Every person in the United States who needs relief will get it, he said. ———————o ■——— County Infirmary Ordered Abandoned Indianapolis. Mar. \ (U.R) Removal of all inmates of the Vigo county infirmary at Terre Haute within 90 days was ordered today by AUG. Feeney, state fire marshal Feetley said he had notified the Vigo county auditor, county council and county commissioners that, the infirmary building is dilapidated. a tire hazard and unsafe for living conditions. The infirmary was built about 75 years ago of brick and wood and was intended to house not more than 100 persons, investigators of the tire marshal's office reported. At present there are more than 225 Inmates. o Get the Habit — Trade at Home

MARKETREPORTS DAILY REPORT OF LOCAL AND FOREIGN MARKETS BERNE MARKET Corrected March 28 No commission and no yardage Veals received Tuesday Wednesday Friday and Saturday 160 to 210 lb*. $4.15 ! ; 210 to 250 lb* $4.20 I 250 to 300 lbs $4.10 j i 300 to 350 lbs $3.80 140 to 160 lbs $3.2" j 120 to 140 lbs $2.20 | ' 100 to 120 lbs $1.09 Roughs #2.75 I | Stags $1.60 Vealers $6 50 Lambs $8.60 , Fort Wayne Livestock Hogs 6c lower; 260-300 lbs. j $4.45; 200-250 lbs. $4.35; 180-200 ] tbs. $4.20. 160-130 lbs. $4.10; 300I 350 lbs $3.15; 160-160 lbs. $3.60; |‘ | 140-150 lbs $3.36; 130 140 lbs. I ! ss.lo; 120-130 tbs. $2.60; 100-120 | lbs. $2.10; roughs $3; stags $1.75.! Calves $6.50-7; lambs $8.50. CHICAGO GRAIN CLOSE May July Sept | | Wheat .86 7 * .86', .87®*Corn .49 .51 .52 T s : Oats .32% -33% -33 s * j EAST BUFFALO LIVESTOCK East Buffalo, N. Y.. Mar. 31.— i (U.PJ —Livestock: Hogs, receipts. 700; holdovers. | I none; slow, weak to 5c under Fri-j I day; desirable 170 to 230 lbs.. $4.90; i desirable 170 to 220 lbs.. $4 90; | plainer kinds. $4 75; 150 lbs.. $4.50: j 1120 to 130 lbs.. $.3 75 to $4 Cattle, receipts, 50; week's steer! I and yearling supply light; market ; uneven: mostlv steady; good offer ings. $6.50 to $7: top. $7 25: bulk j medium and short feds, $5.50 to j $6.25; rough weighty steers. $5.50 :o $5.65; better grade cows scarce, steady; lower grades in liberal I supply weak to 25c lower; fat cows. $3.25 to S3.SO; cutter grades] | $l4O to $2.50. j Calves. receipts, 50; vealers] i closed 50c and more under last i week; supply liberal; good to] j choice. $7 to $7.50; early bulk. SS; I 'common and medium. $3.75 to $6 j Sheep, receipts, none; lambs 25c j to 35c lower for week; good to [ choice woolskins, $9.25 to $9.50; \ common and medium, $S to $9; j shorn lambs. $' down; few 40 to j 55-lb., spring iambs, sll to $12.69. LOCAL GRAIN MARKET Corrected Marah 22 Nc. 1 New Wheat, 60 lbg or better ‘ 79c ' No. 2 New Wheat 58 lbs. 78c j Old Oats Sic ! I New O.u- 29c ' First Class Yellow Corn 58c ; Mixed corn 5c less i Sov Beans 60c to 90c o South's Body Is Found In River Rockford. 111., Hard) — UP) j I The day after his father was sen- ( I tenced to one to 14 years for mur- ] i dering him during a family quarrel. I : the body of Charles Backus, Jr. S. ; was found yesterday in the Rock I river near the Rockford country ! club. Backus was sentenced Wednesday on charges of finding thp 1 youth's body. They won conviction J of the Elder Ba kus, however, after I prosecuting on his confession that he bad thrown the boy ino the! river. Backus later repudiated his confossion. Yesterday he identified i the body. 0 Conspicuous Nothing shows up as fast as „ ; weak tire, unless )t Is the spot the painter missed.—Racine Journal ] News. ■—__ o WE ARE still in the business of cutting hair at 15c. We guarantee to please. Give us a trial. W. A. Fonner. 415 N. 7th st. Decatur.

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f PREBLE NEWS * Misses Lorine anJ Irene KlivhmH and Mr*. June Shockley spent Friday at Fort Wayne Mr and Mia. Uua Yake vlaitod Mr and Mrs. Orville Heller anld romily Sunday. Mr. anJ Mr*, tius Lelmenstall and daughter Rachel. Hazel Helmrlck, and Richard anld Junior Heimrlck of Magley spent Sunday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hoffman and family. Mr. an! Mrs. itii Goldner.visited Mr. and Mrs. Ausuet Werllng Sunday. Mrs. Susie Knock. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Homeier and son and Miss Clara Linnemcier of Fort Wayne, visited Mrs. Will Ltnnemier ami

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SYNOPSIS ' Sailing from France to America aboard the S.S. "Navarre,” the reformed "Lone Wolf," erstwhile master crook, meets wealthy Fay Crozier, one of his antique shop patrons, and her lovely daughter Fenno. Mrs. Crozier shows Lanyard the famous Habsburg emeralds which she bought secretly to avoid payment of duty. Lanyard's experienced eye discovers that counterfeits have been substituted for the gems. He promises to try and retrieve the emeralds. Lanyard suspects Maurice Parry, a youthful fellow-passenger, who appears deeply interested in Fenno. The resemblance between Lanyard and Maurice causes the former to wonder if they are related. In a bridge game with two card sharks. Maurice loses heavily. Lanyard joins the players as Parry's partner, catches their opponents cheating and threatens to expose them unless Maurice's loss is called off. Later. Lanyard tells the appreciative Maurice that he can repay him by returning Mrs. Crosier’s jewels. The youth removes the top of his cane only to find that Lanyard had been there before him and had replaced the stolen emeralds with the zircons (false gems). Lanyard chaffs Maurice for his lack of cleverness. The boy retorts —"If you think I'm ashamed of being no match for my own father . . Lanyard believed his son had been killed with the rest of his family during the war. CHAPTER VIII “I must say you don’t act as if you found the prospect welcome!’* “Reflect that you offer me a? my unknown son—if any—a thief.” “And if so? What were you—” “At your age, as I have already pointed out. also a bumptious young jackass. But come, monsieur! It would appear that we do not get anywhere.” “But it seems to me you hardly rare to.” The young man gave his own version of a baffled shrug. “Frankly, you discourage me." “Because I decline to play the hypocrite?” "How, ‘play the hypocrite’?” “Affect what I do not fee!—pretend to approve, in one who may or may not tuni out to be my own flesh, courses which I actually deplore.” "I see. monsieur. Y’ou do not wish to believe.” “You are mistaken” —a slow nod lent the protestation sincerity indisputable—“so far so that you find me already, with little more to go on than a certain likeness, half-per-suaded. But my reason wants proofs that my heart would dispense with. You might, for example, begin by telling me what your name was before it was Maurice Parry.” “Ah, monsieur! I have had so many.” 'No doubL But the first you can recall, your name as a boy.” With dark eyes fast to Lanyard's the young man deliberately pronounced; "Choin, monsieur—Maurice Choin.” And all at once Lanyard knew he would have been inconsolable, given any other answer; and hearing his own murmur in the hush—“lmpossible!”—in immediate denial of it opened his arms. “My dear boy!” And his son went to him. Akin as both were by lifelong habit to the Latin temper, those two grown men embraced and were not ashamed. “How did you know?” “I didn’t,” Maurice protested as they disengaged. “It was only tonight that I guessed. . . . But I never forgot the last words my mother breathed as she lay dying, with my sister dead in her arms—” “How—” The youth shook his head. “I hardly know. Think how it must have been with a child caught in that terror which broke, like hell out of a clear sky, on the peaceful home you can’t have forgotten. Everything was suddenly blood and

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3011 Herman Sunday. Mr, and Mr* George Bultemeier. and daughters spent Sunday visitj tug Mr. and Mr*. Chris Bultemeier ! an 1 family. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Biebrick ,and family vUlted Mrs Will Lin- , nemeler and sop. Herman, Sunday.’ j Mrs. Charles Sullivan and Jaunla called on Mr*. John Ktrchner and daughters Wednesday. Mrs. Ora Newhard visited Mrs. i Clarence Smith Wednesday. ——o Rules Os Public Library Explained Some discussion has come up regarding the rules of the Library, j A book may be retained two weeks uuleaa otherwise lubeied.

flames and great guns bellowing. 1 recall as fragments of a nightmare, running through a street that was fuil of dead, clinging to my mother's skirts while she carried little Jeanne, and a great explosion that tore me from her and stunned me. When I recovered sufficiently to crawl to her side, she kissed me, whispered, ‘Y'our father —Michael Lanyard'—and died. After that. ... I am not sure.” “You were not wounded?* “No; but I must have been for days haif-demented. I retain inconsecutive glimpses of the child I was wandering across open country in the rain, begging crusts and sleeping where night overtook me, in byres or under hedges. In the end I came to myself convalescent of a fever in the home of some old folk in Antwerp. They had found me delirious in the streets. They permitted me to share their poverty while they lived. But at thirteen I was once again without a home.” “And then—” “What would you?" the young man lightly deprecated. "I was at that age when one is always hungry; when I couldn't get enough to eat otherwise—l stole. In fine, I grew up a guttersnipe—at fifteen an expert pickpocket, at eighteen a finished burglar, with Antwerp and Brussels too small for me. So I tried my luck in Berlin, later in London, eventually in Paris.” "Unhappy child! And did it never occur to you to seek for traces of the father whose identity your mother had confided?” “It never occurred to me that she had meant anything but to recommend me to the charity of some friend of my father’s; but I could find no one in Louvain after the Armistice who had ever heard of a Monsieur Michael Lanyard—hardly a soul, indeed, that remembered the father whom I knew only by the name of Maurice Choin. I conceived you to be dead: and it was only a year or so ago that I heard, in Paris, tales of that legendary hero of the French crook, the lone Wolf, who-—they said—when he had finely feathered his licst. retired to private life and under the alias of Michael Lanyard bought an interest ir, the house of Delibes. It seemed little likely he could be the man whom my mother bad named, but I had the whim none the less to call on him and ask if he had ever known Maurice Choin of Louvain, my father.” “Why didn’t you?” “They told me, at Delibes’, you were enjoying a holiday in Italy.” “But I returned.” “True. I might have called a second time, but that didn’t appeal to me as expedient. The truth is.” the youngster told Lanyard with a graceless grin, “what I had seen of the treasures of Delibes had interested me strangely.” "Ah! That small affair, then, was yours? I told them it had been the burglary of a highly practised hand.” “One hoped that the truth would deal no blow to your natural pride of a father.” But Lanyard refused to answer Maurice’s smile. “Figure to yourself that I love you.” he said in ail simplicity, “and never ask me to speak of your imbecility in jest.” ‘‘‘lmbecility’!” The young man reddened. “I must say. monsieur, you prove your affection in strange terms.” “Have I pretended to admire the ways of your infatuation?” “You might, I should think, be a little broad-minded — you whom they once called the Lone Wolf 1” “If I had not been that one 1 might be more patient with your evident impression that his pelt has fallen on your shoulders They called him the Ixine Wolf because he had the wit never to have accomplices to betray him—his identity was never known till long after he had made his last prowl.” "Must you assume i have accomplices?”

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“You have one. at least, in myself.” —Lanyard smiled, — “an accomplice after the fact tonight — and probably the only one who will never betray you.” “Not even if I refuse to be moved by your preaching?” “Not even if you continue to diecredit your good sense.” “I don’t see why, if you disapprove so strongly—” “Because I too am an imbecile, in my own fashion, because of this deep affection I already have for you." “Is it then imbecilic to have a father’s natural feeling?” “What else, when I must, against my better judgment, protect and cherish one whom I may not trust?” “You think as ill of me as all that!” “I know men's hearts too well. I know that the man who thinks himself too clever to play the game bv the rules is cheating not life but himself; that the man who can’t be true to himself will end by being false even to those who love him.” “Yet you were the Lone Wolf when you won the heart of my mother." “The day I won her I ceased to be the Lone Wolf; not so much for her sake as for purely selfish considerations. A woman may love a man she can’t respect, but her love won’t last." "One is to understand the Lone Wolf never prowled again?" “Never.” “What, never? Not even once, for old sake’s sake?” “Are you being foolishly impertinent? Or just damned impertinent?" “Forgive me. 1 had merely tha wish to be humorous.” The contrite look which the son put on passed into a dark stare. “By what you tell me. you are a sentimentalist. Sorry if I wound you.” A sign of amused indulgence encouraged him. “Y'ou put love on a pedestal; a pretty gesture, but today—is it not a thought demode?” “I am afraid yon have been unfortunate in your yonng experiments,” “Not at all," the boy retorted in some pique. “Permit me to assure you—" “Since you have it yet to learn that true love is never out of fashion ” “I know women too well to take love seriously.” “1 am sure you do. But your views will change, once you are loved by a right woman. Till that happens we only waste each other's time with such discussions.” Lanyard got up and. as Maurice rose in turn, dropped both hands upon his shoulders. “Good night, my son. It grows late, and we have all this voyage-—’’ “But,” the scamp objected in a twinkle, "aren’t you forgetting something?” “What, for example?” “To make me promise I’ll try to be a good hoy for your sake.” “That I shall never ask of you." “What! Y'ou don’t consider it your duty—" "Man never yet quitted his folly for anybody’s sake but his own, and didn't return to it. The day will come when you will fall out of love with th" picture of yourself as a devilish fine fellow, thumbing your nose at a pack of stupid police. Till it does—-you e ou id n ’t make any promise good you might give me.” But at the door Lanyard turned back for a last word. “On. by the by—watch yourself with Fenno Crazier." “Why?" Maurice was startled and resentful. “What does she know’” “Much more than you do. She’s far cleverer than you If you value your secrets, pull wide of that young woman.” Lanyard reserved his wink to the ironic gods till in the dusky passageways that led to his own cabin. (To Be Continued)

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SYNOPSIS Sailing from France to America aboard the'S S. "Navarre.” Michael Lanyard, reformed "Lone Wolf," erstwhile master crook, meets wealthy Fay Crozier, one of his antique shop patrons, and her lovely daughter Fenno. Mrs. Crozier shows Lanyard the famous Habsburg emeralds which she bought secretly to avoid payment of duty. Lanyard's experienced eye discovers that counterfeits have been substituted for the gems. He promises to try and retrieve the emeralds. Lanyard suspects Maurice Parry, a youthful fellow-passenger, who appears deeply interested in Fenno. The resemblance between Lanyard and Maurice causes the former to wonder if they are related. In a bridge game with two card sharks. Maurice loses heavily. Lanyard joins the players as Parry’s partner, catches their opponents cheating and threatens to expose them unless Maurice's loss is called off. Later, Lanyard tells the appreciative Maurice that he can repay him by returning Mrs. Crozier’s jewels. The youth removes the top of his can only to find that Lanyard had been there before him and had replaced the stolen emeralds with the zircons (false gems). Maurice discloses that he is Lanyard’s son whom the latter believed kilied during the war. Though happy at the reunion. Lanyard is disappointed to find his son a thief. Maurice explains he was forced to steal since boyhood in order to exist. Lanyard leaves his boy with the warning: "Watch yourself with Fenno if you value yo secret," and winks as he goes to Ixs cabin. CHAPTER IX It isn't the matter of common knowledge it might be that the timeless gods are lonely and as a rule more gratified than huffed by minor irreverences which impute to them some fellowship with men. That other amateur of human nature, ironic Eros, for example, repaid Lanyard's wink in the dark by staging for him, when he came on deck •bout mid-morning, a tableau as winsome as you please. The day had broken clear but windy with a jeweled sea and one j lively enough to lend the lean swift ship a noticeable roll. The poorer sailors were keeping their cabins i and most of the passengers about i were males. Fenno Crozier might have claimed two-score cavaliers if I she had cared to, but had suffered ( herself to be cut out by one. Maurice Lanyard had the girl al! to him- I self where a jog in the superstrue- < lure served as a windbreak—and 1 was flying every indication of being ■ much set up by his success. As he might well have been! ! There wasn*t a prettier nymph i •board the Navarre. Lanyard would i have laid long odds for that matter. ; there wasn’t another so fetching on i the whole Western Ocean, whose coloring was as clear as the day’s, whose eyes held the blue dream of the sea as well as its laughter Eyes that were all for Maurice too, as his were for Fenno: though his father, emerging from the forward companionway entrance, stood a full minute at gaze, neither of the two was aware that he existed. Lanyard didn’t mind that, but bucked the wind that blustered aft rather than risk raising a bid to make their company a crowd. Enough thus to have seen one’s hard-won heartcraft proving itself in practice: a parent less elderly might not have known that one only reeded to warn one's young of dan ger to see them rush to meet it with widespread arms. The sooner that sweet mischief achieved her ambition to hear Maurice call her hard names, the happier for the dark paternal design Maurice with a sore heart wouldn’t be half the danger to himself that Maurice was today in his overblown conceit. Lanyard battled round the forward end of the superstructure and with the wind at his hack, scudded down the port side till he brought up standing at the after-rail, elbow to elbow with Crane.

* Crews was made during the day. 11 Sunday evening the Girl* CfcoUr « l o f the Zion Reformed church will j I ; pruseul an Easter cantata The, ] Thorn-Crowned King. The pro.. I pram will be held In the church ] > j auditorium at 7 o'clock. I children anticipated the coming ' ] dont to the proverbial visit of the I } JSneter Rabbit. DIREC TOR FRY ISSUES ORDER (CONTINUED i'KOM ''2*l tile law and of tie national cod.Inside sigr.x advertising certain | n rands are pernti*»al>le provtib 1 I 'they are the property of the retail- j I er, the regulations set out. j' i such Inside signs must not ex , I ceed 22 by 2s Inches in dimension j i ! and must not be acquired by re- j ,alien at less than actual cost. ji Fry said he was instructing state i excise Investigators to nlake an; I immediate check of their territor lies regarding violations of the ord ! er. A court tight against the order j was indicated tody by Frank \V. i i

“How, Lone Wolf!" Crane without releasing the stem of his pipe gave a tight grin. “Heap plenty war medicine-man and proud ot it, ain’t you? All I got to say is I hope you come through with your scalp on.” “Meaning—” Lanyard had an unaffected stare. , “The way you’ve always had, anyhow as often as I’ve had the pleasure of watching you strut your stuff, of making a dead set for trouble and landing in it up to your neck. Referring particularly to last i night’s performance. Mind telling if you had any special reasons for i

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not letting that kid take his trim ming, after he’d asked for it?” “One is to understand, then, you believe in standing idly by when card-sharks are at work?” “Wouldn’t go so far as to say that, exactly. It would all depend on the card-sharks in question. If I'd had any idea you wore going to wade into that show like you did, I’d’ve tipped you off to go slow and let the Captain settle their hash—as in due course he'd be bound to. 1 don’t suppose it’ll mean much to you, seeing you’re only a poor ignorant foreigner, but I’m going to tell you who those birds were you got so fresh with.” “Does it matter?” "That just goes to show how little you realize what New York has turned into, with what we called the underworld in the old days come right out of its burrows and doing business plumb in the public highways, as bold as brass and twice as hard-shelled The down-East Y ank that, calls himself Clay this trip is John K. Anderson —‘Jack-knife’ Anderson back home—that used to be Leonard Schwartzstein’s bodyguard and gambling buddy. The other, Thwaites, also alias English Archie — Archibald Barker’s his right name—is king of the fence ring and the only bozo you can do business with when you’ve been sap enough to load up with high-class swag such as the run of fences are scared to handle." “But I haven’t. Thanks all the same for the useful information.” “Go on,” Crane grunted, -laugh, mug, and show your ignorance If you kid yourself that it’s any matter for ribald mirth to run afoul of those two known murderers—” "But for desperate characters such as yog wish me to believe them.” Lanyard argued "I must

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